Re: Breaking the rules, write your own interrupt manager?

[paw@bbs.ausom.oz.au (Peter Watson)]

snelson@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Steven Nelson) writes:

[Lot's of stuff deleted about problems with AppleTalk and ProTerm 3.1]

>An hour later, he called back with a 1 byte patch to pt3.code0 so pt3.1
>could quit, without killing Appletalk.  Hurray.  PT3.1 now works quite well
>on a IIGS.  And one of the problems with the Appletalk card is that its
>Pascal 1.1 firmware is broken  (technote on workstation card anomaly - the
>status call doesn't work),  Apple's suggested work around won't work in
>this particular case.  Other IIe workstation problems remained unsolved (and
>may be insolvable).

Don't keep us in suspense! Given that it is a one-byte patch, what is it?

>So, none of the problems involved the interrupt handling code that Greg uses.
>It is faster than Apple's, and Greg will continue to use it.  I'm sorry that
>I blamed the interrupt code.   The solution was easy, and Greg promptly
>found it and fixed when he became aware of it.  I'm impressed, and PT3.1
>remains the top of pack 8-bit communictions package, IMHO.

I second the motion!
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